Chair: Lynn Festa (Rutgers University)

Ted McCormick (Concordia University) will deliver a talk titled,"Observations that Traveled: Graunt’s Observations and the Uses of Quantification in Cotton Mather’s New England"

Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) will deliver a talk titled, "T.R. Malthus, Travel Literature, and the World’s Populations"

Chair: Maria Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University)

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin) will deliver a talk titled, "Early Modern Networks and Contingency: Jesuits, Souls, Geopolitics, and Research Projects"

Paula Findlen (Stanford University) will deliver a talk titled, "How Information Travels: Lessons From the Early Modern Republic of Letters"

Ann Blair (Harvard University) will deliver closing commentary